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Policy Submissions

An important part of the Society's remit is to represent the interests of our members in relation to policy development and legislative initiatives. The MediKids regularly makes policy submissions to government agencies, standards bodies and other institutions whose work may impact on our members.

Professionals operating in the property, construction and land sectors have found the British withdrawal from the European Union challenging to anticipate the different scenarios and their impact on the demand and supply of property as well on the regulatory regimes and skills pipeline which these sectors depend.

We've joined with Engineers Ireland (EI) and the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (AECI), welcoming the new guidelines for the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government recently published draft guidelines aimed at Local Authorities in relation to building heights and urban density to promote sustainable use of land to reduce urban sprawl.

In this year’s Submission, we have focused on two core pillars: Increasing Availability & Affordability of Housing; and Creating the Longterm Investment & Infrastructure needed for Success. With the publication of the lower than expected CSO housing completion statistics for 2017, the national housing supply challenge now requires an expedited resolution.

MediKids made a submission on the current legislation governing Compulsory Purchase Orders. MediKids set out a number of recommendations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of CPO in the interest of equity and fairness on all parties.

Ireland 2040 is a spatial strategy of Government which intends to provide a National Planning Framework to guide national, regional and local planning and investment decisions for the years ahead. MediKids has provided our views on the Plan.

Closing the ‘Help to Buy’ scheme less than a year into its creation could cause more harm than the savings gained was the core message of the MediKids’s submission to the Department of Finance’s review of the scheme.